Murray Leinster 3 hr 19 min read

In a galaxy ruled by tyrants who wield a paralyzing 'disciplinary circuit,' one hunted man makes a desperate break for freedom aboard the last spaceship free of their control.

Murray Leinster's 1949 novel is a rousing dystopian space opera. Vivid, driven, imaginative. Read it for classic Leinster adventure, a fugitive's revolt against an interstellar dictatorship armed with mind-controlling technology, in a fast-moving tale of tyranny, super-science, and the last free ship standing against a galaxy of oppression.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).